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On the bilateral trade effects of free trade agreements between the EU-15 and the CEEC-4 countries
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Rault, Christophe; Sova, Robert - 2008
The expansion of regionalism has spawned an extensive theoretical literature analysing the effects of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) on trade flows. In this paper we focus on FTAs (also called European agreements) between the European Union (EU-15) and the Central and Eastern European countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003769782
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Trade and economic growth: theories and evidence from the Southern African Development Community
Farahane, Matias Jaime; Heshmati, Almas - 2020
This paper empirically tests the hypothesis that trade can act as an engine of growth using panel data for the Southern African Development Community (SADC), a regional integration agreement (RIA) organization, the central objective of whose formation was the need to accelerate, foster, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012290621
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Free Trade Agreements and the movement of business people
Mayer, Thierry; Rapoport, Hillel; Umana-Dajud, Camilo - 2024
Using provisions to ease the movement of business visitors in trade agreements, we show that removing barriers to the movement of business people promotes trade. We document the increasing complexity of Free Trade Agreements and develop an algorithm that combines machine learning and text...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014486333
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North-South technology diffusion, regional integration, and the dynamics of the "natural trading partners" hypothesis
Schiff, Maurice W. (contributor); Wang, Yanling (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
dynamic viewpoint by examining the impact of trade with Japan, North America and the EU on technology diffusion and TFP in … regional: Korea (Mexico) (Poland) benefits mainly from trade with Japan (North America) (the EU); and ii) the dynamic version … dynamic viewpoint by examining the impact of trade with Japan, North America and the EU on technology diffusion and TFP in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002482588
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The legacies of slavery in and out of Africa
Bertocchi, Graziella - 2015
consequences of the slave trade on the "receiving" countries in the Americas. Here I distinguish between the case of Latin America …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283184
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The effect of job loss on health : evidence from biomarkers
Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Crimmins, Eileen M.; Hurd, Michael D. - 2014
The effect of job loss on health may play an important role in the development of the SES-health gradient. In this paper, we estimate the effect of job loss on objective measures of physiological dysregulation using longitudinal data from the Health and Retirement Study and biomarker measures...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010423793
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North-South trade liberalization and returns to skill in the south : the case of Mexico
Hazarika, Gautam (contributor); Otero, Rafael (contributor) - 2008
This study examines the effect of NAFTA, an instance of North-South trade liberalization, on returns to skill in Mexico. Mexico is abundant in low-skill workers relative to the US and Canada, and so, by the Hecksher-Ohlin-Samuelson trade model, NAFTA ought to have raised the relative earnings of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003771056
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An empirical analysis of trade-related redistribution and the political viability of free trade
Lake, James; Millimet, Daniel L. - 2014
Even if free trade creates net welfare gains for a country as a whole, the associated distributional implications can undermine the political viability of free trade. We show that trade-related redistribution increases the political viability of free trade in the US. We do so by assessing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010339571
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Trade policy and labor services : final status options for the West Bank and Gaza
Schiff, Maurice W. (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001926831
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Trade, wages, and productivity
Behrens, Kristian; Mion, Giordano; Murata, Yasusada; … - 2008
We develop a new general equilibrium model of trade with heterogeneous firms, variable demand elasticities and endogenously determined wages. Trade integration favors wage convergence, intensifies competition, and forces the least efficient firms to leave the market, thereby affecting aggregate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003755333